Oh boy—it’s pouring in Nantou’s Ren’ai Township today, with Lushan recording over 500 mm of rainfall in just 24 hours. Transportation to Lushan, Lixin Industrial Road, and Cingjing Farm has been cut off. The autumn tea harvests in Qilai Mountain, Cuifeng, and DongYanShan are in trouble! 😭😭 To everyone waiting for the Cuifeng and Qilai Mountain
On August 2nd, I headed up to Duda Village on Qilai Mountain to check out how the autumn tea was coming along. Compared to Lishan, where the autumn crop is just average, Qilai Mountain autumn tea is looking “fantastic”—I’d easily give it a solid 85 points. But then heavy rains hit the very next day,
Hey tea friends, I have some bad news to share. We couldn’t find any good Lishan autumn tea this year. After tasting batch after batch and just feeling discouraged, I’ve decided not to stock any for this season 😞😞 ================As for this year’s Lishan autumn tea, I felt it was just “so-so,” though a few
Another batch of Vietnamese tea passed off as Taiwanese tea got busted. The frequency of these crackdowns lately shows the government is finally doing its job. The most ironic part of this recent news: Vietnamese tea costing NT$146 per 600 g was packaged as Taiwanese high-mountain tea and sold to consumers for NT$1,500 per 600
Dear tea lovers, following the Lishan tea region, here is another piece of bad news: we couldn’t find good tea from the Cingjing and Cuifeng autumn harvests for 2023, so we’ve decided not to stock it 😭😭 /*! elementor – v3.15.0 – 20-08-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} ================The Cingjing and Cuifeng autumn tea
To save everyone the trouble of asking, I can confirm that the “2023 autumn tea harvest is a total washout.” Dayuling, HuaGung, Malieba Suspension Bridge, Cuiluan, Farm Edge, Cuifeng, Meifeng, Qilai Mountain, LongFengXia, along with the Lishan tea series, ShanLinXi tea series, and Alishan tea series—we didn’t purchase a single batch from any of them.
Today let’s talk about Biluxi tea. The traditional Biluxi tea region is located between the 95K and 99K markers on the Central Cross-Island Highway (marked by the red line in photo 2). Because the Biluxi River runs just below the tea plantations, tea industry insiders named the tea from this area Biluxi tea. During its
With high-mountain autumn tea missing from our lineup this year, many tea friends have been asking questions. Here are a few updates from the store manager regarding the 2023 autumn tea season: /*! elementor – v3.15.0 – 20-08-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} ================ Personal opinion doesn’t represent the whole picture: I sampled dozens
Without rain during the spring tea season, fertilizers couldn’t dissolve properly. But in August and September, there was too much rain, washing the fertilizer away—tea farmers are in big trouble now~😭 /*! elementor – v3.15.0 – 20-08-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Many tea farmers applied fertilizer around the autumn tea harvest, only for
I know many of you are already familiar with this, but if even one person isn’t, then today’s casual chat is worthwhile~ Today we’re talking about “Fushou Mountain Farm Outer-Area Tea“. Fushou Mountain Farm Outer-Area Tea is also referred to as farm-edge tea, Fushou Lishan tea, or simply “outer-area tea.” As the name suggests, it
Ever since the mudslides caused by Typhoon Khanun, our store manager hadn’t visited the Cuifeng and Tunyuan Qilai Mountain tea regions for over a month. Hearing that the road to Tunyuan had reopened, he headed up the mountain a few days ago. Cleanup in Nanfeng Village is mostly done, and the gas station is almost
Our tea industry myth-buster series is back! Today, we’re talking about the “Lishan Tea Region scope“—what areas are actually included in the Lishan tea region? Table of Contents Lishan Tea Region Scope Tea cultivation in the Lishan area began around 1980. As time went on, the tea-growing region continuously expanded outward. Aside from the original
The winter tea season—the “final exam” for high mountain teas—has officially begun, and our first stop is the premier tea region: Lishan. Today, we’re bringing you an update on the growth of the winter tea in the back ranges of Lishan—specifically at Cuiluan and the Malieba Suspension Bridge head 👍👍 Conditions in the Cuiluan Lixing
Next up is the frontline of Lishan tea production: the areas around Fushou Shan Farm and the Sinjiayang settlement. Compared to the consistently above-average quality of the back mountains, the growth conditions in the front mountains are quite polarized, meaning we’ll have to put a lot more effort into sourcing this season~😅😅 Sinjiayang Settlement: Quite
Good evening, tea lovers! Typhoon Koinu has passed. Although there were still scattered rains in various regions today (October 7th), Lishan, Cuifeng, and Cingjing were fortunate enough to stay dry. The forecast points to a high chance of “consecutive sunny days” in the coming days, which might just bring out that legendary, phenomenal tea everyone
